“No one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you.”
– Bo Burnham
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Life – Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein
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Education – Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller
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Yesterday – Khalil Gibran
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. Today, we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
– Khalil Gibran
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Happy ending Gilda Radner
“I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”
– Gilda Radner
“The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I’m sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live in trapped loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation of the last, every moment smoothly following the the gentle curves of societal norms. we act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us. And no, I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know how to jolly myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn’t involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn’t involve tempering my life to better fit someone’s expectations. It doesn’t involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up. This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can: Fuck. That. Shit.”
– Randall Munroe (xkcd)
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Forgiveness – C.S. Lewis
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
– C.S. Lewis
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Noisy crowd – Rabindranath Tagore
“Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Debates – John Stuart Mill
“In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”
– John Stuart Mill
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Truth – Doug Gwyn
“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”
– Doug Gwyn
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Surf – Jon Kabat-Zinn
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Generosity and pride – Kahlil Gibran
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
– Kahlil Gibran
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Great affairs – Nicholas Chamfort
“In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.”
– Nicholas Chamfort
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Thinking – William James
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”
– William James
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Snowflake – Voltaire
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
– Voltaire